{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-22/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-22/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1996/22",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 96/22/EC of 29 April 1996 concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists, and repealing Directives 81/602/EEC, 88/146/EEC and 88/299/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-22",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States shall prohibit, for substances listed in Annex II, and shall provisionally prohibit, for substances listed in Annex III:\n(a) the administering of those substances to farm or aquaculture animals, by any means whatsoever;\n(b) the holding, except under official control, of animals referred to in point (a) on a farm, and\nthe placing on the market or the slaughter for human consumption of farm animals,\nwhich contain the substances referred to in Annex II and Annex III or in which the presence of such substances has been established, unless proof can be given that the animals in question have been treated in accordance with Articles 4, 5 or 5a ;\n(c) the placing on the market for human consumption of aquaculture animals to which substances referred to above have been administered and of processed products derived from such animals;\n(d) the placing on the market of meat from animals referred to in point (b);\n(e) the processing of the meat referred to in (d).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2003/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 amending Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Deleted by Directive 2008/97/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 amending Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1996/22/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:13.165595+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}